Ben Stein VS Obama

In an interview with Fox News, actor and political commentator Ben Stein said that Obama is “the most racist president” America’s ever had. He claimed Obama was “purposely using race to divide Americans,” specifically stating that claims made by Democrats that Republicans don’t care about blacks because of cuts made to welfare programs that would have helped them are just ridiculous because the cuts made were very miniscule and didn’t seem to be affecting people that much, seeing as more people than ever are on food stamps, getting welfare, and getting government subsidized healthcare. He also pointed out that the Republicans approved policies stopping the economic crash of 2008-2009 from escalating into another Great Depression. Furthermore, he talked about how whenever black people are targeted, it always seems to be pinned on Republicans because Democrats claim that they have policies against black people in the economy, when in fact no such policies exist. Stein also said he’s seen Democrats send out pamphlets claiming that Republicans are “targeting Obama because he’s black,” so black people should go out and support him, and black people ultimately decide to go with Obama because he’s their race. He argued that because Republicans passed all the Civil Rights laws, they’re as pro-black as you can get. During the interview, a poll by Fox was shown saying that 31% of voters said they’re worse off than they were in 2008, 47% think the GOP would do more to improve the economy, and 43% say the economy is the most important issue right now.  Stein claimed that those statistics were given by Democrats as a way to racialize voters in the US. Although he might have gone too far in calling Obama “racist,” all of what he said really makes you wonder how race affects politics.  Who is really to blame for how a certain race will vote? Will certain people really only vote for someone because the person is their race? Who is leading them to believe accusations of laws treating their race unfairly, and why are they so quick to believe them without finding out for themselves?  We heard one side of the story about what the Democrats do to persuade people to vote for them, but we didn’t hear anything about the lengths Republicans will go to. Are they more or less fair to certain races? What policies do they have set up? Hearing only one side of an argument doesn’t paint a complete picture, so before we go accuse Democrats of being manipulative towards blacks, I think both sides of the story need to be heard.

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/11/196832-actor-economist-ben-stein-calls-obama-racist-president-u-s-history/